Anne Bernhard, associate professor of biology and chair of the Biology Department at Connecticut College, has been awarded a $301,956 grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to continue her research investigating the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the salt marshes of Louisiana. Bernhard is part of a group of researchers, led by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, examining the effects of the spill on coastal ecosystems. Her grant is part of a $16 million award going to the research team, made possible by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Research Board. The board is an independent body established by BP to administer the company's...

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